BIEDS FULIGULINAE—CAMPTOLAEMUS LABEADOEIUS. 803 LAMPEONETTA FISCHEEI, Brandt. Spectacled Eider. Lampronetta fischeri, Brandt, M6m. Acad, St. Petersburg, 6th series; Sc, Nat, VI, 1849,10, pl. 1 3- (Probably published in 1847.) Arctondta fischeri. Gray, Pr, Zool. Soc. 1855, 212; pl. cviii, 3, 9, a°d young 3- Sp. Ch.—A large sub-circular or sub-quadrangular black outline around the eye, sending a short branch backwards; the spacethus enclosed white tinged with reddish. Feathers about the base of bill tinged with greenish. The space between the blackoutlines above, their lower border, and the entire occiput and nape, green. Chin, throat, lower neck, fore part of back, wingcoverts, tertials, and a patch each side of the rump, white. Under parts generally, rump, tail, and primary quills, black;bill yellow. Female brown, with dull dusky blotches or bars, 'Chin and throat whitish. White eye patch ofthe male obscurely indicated. Length 21.20 inches; wing, 10inches?; tarsus, 1.70; commissure, 2.20, Hab.—Norton sound, Eussian America, 634 N. L. This fine duck is only known from the descriptions and figures of Brandt and Gray,mentioned above. All the specimens obtained were found at Norton Sound, Eussian America,latitude 63^°, and doubtless in severe winters the species will be found on our own coast. CAMPTOLAEMUS, Gray. Kamptorhynchus, Eyton, Mon. Anat. 1838. Not of Cuvier. Type Anas labradora, Gm. Camptolaemus, Gray, List Genera, 1841. Same type. Ch.—Bill broad, with the edges nearly parallel, but widening towards the tip, this expansion consisting of a tough membrane.Nostrils in the basal third of the bill as measured from the upper posterior angle. Feathers of cheek extending moderatelyforwards, convex anteriorly; those of chin reaching about as far. Bill nearly as long as the head, and considerahly exceedingthe tarsus. Feathers of cheeks stiffened and rigid. Tertials straight. Tail rather pointed. The single species of this remarkable genus is almost entirely black and white in its colors. CAMPTOLAEMUS LABEADOEIUS, Gray. Labrador Duck. Anas labradoria, Gmelds, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 557.—Lath. Ind. II, 1790, 859. Anas labradora, Wilson, Am. Orn, VIII, 1814, 91; pl. Ixix. Anas {Fuligulay-labradora, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 276. Fuligula labradora, Bon Syn. 1828, 391.—Nutt. Man. II, 428.—Add. Orn. Biog, IV, 1838, 271; pl, 333.—Ib. Syn. 288.—Ib. Birds Am. VI, 1843, 329; pl. 400. Rhynchaspis labradora, Stephens, Shaw's Zool. XII, 1824, 121. Oamptorhynchus labradorius, Eyton, Mon. Anat. 1838, 151.—Bon. List. Camptolaenms labradorius, Gray, List Genera, 1841. Fuligula grisea, Leib, J. A. N. Sc. Phil. VIII, 1840, 170. Young. Pied dude, Penn. II, 594. Sp. Ch.—Bill black; yellowish along the base and a little in front of nostrils. Central line along the vertex, a ring aroundthe lower part of the neck, extended broadly behind and above along the median line, and then continuous with the interscapularregion, lower part of back and rump, with the entire under parts and sides, black. Head and neck, a half collar below theblack ring, and the sides of the jugulum, scapulars, axillars, and entire wing on both sides, excepting the primaries, white; theprimaries plumbeous black. The scapulars aud tertials tinged with lead gray on some of the inner webs, the tertials externallymargined narrowly with black. Female entirely plumbeous gray; more dusky beneath. Wing without white on the upper coverts and scapulars; the tertialshoary plumbeous. Length, 23.75; wing, 8.80; tarsus, 1.60; commissure, 2.50. Hab.—Northeastern coast of North America.